Identification device or disk to be attached to hand bags or other goods of leather or like material



Nov. 10, 1925- 1,560,682

W. F. FITZGERALD ET AL IDENTIFICATION nsvrca 0R DISK TO BE ATTACHED TO mun BAGS OR OTHER GOODS OF LEATHER on LIKE MATERIAL Filed Feb. 1.0, 1925 'FIG.'1.

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Patented Nov. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT Ton-10 WILLIAM EDWARD FINEGAN FITZGERALD AND THOMAS BOTTOM, OF BIRMINGHAM,

ENGLAND. V

IDENTIFICATION DEVICE OR DISK TO BE ATTACHED TO' HANDJBAGS OR OTHER GOODS OF LEATHER 0R LIKE MATERIAL. v

Application filed February 10, 1925. Serial N0. 8 ,252.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM EDWARD FINEGAN FITZGERALD, residing at 10 Vyse Street, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, England, and THoMAs BOTTOM, of the same address, both subjects of the King of Great Britain, have invented new Imp-rovements in or'Relating to Identification Devices or Disks to be Attached to Hand Bags or Other Goods of Leather or like Material; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

An application for patent on said improvement has been filed in Great Britain, Serial Number 32,379, filed December 28th, 1923.

This invention relates to a new or improved identification plate or device.

The object of this invention is to provide an identification plate that can be attached without difficulty and at a moments notice to leather, fabric and similar articles, such as hand bags. A further object of the invention is to provide a neat and secure method of attaching the plate which will withstand wear and weather, and at the same time will not be liable to damage the article or detract from its attractive appearance;

Various advantages accruing from the simple and effective construct-ion of the device will be apparent from the following description of a particular embodiment of the invention which is illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view showing one form of device constructed in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view partly in section.

Figure 3 is a sectional view.

in the construction shown in Figures 1 to 3 a plate or disk 1 is made of sheet metal of any convenient size and shape having a number, say three, pointed peripheral projections 2 in the form of narrow tongues (which extend at right angles to the plate or These tongues 2 are arranged to be forced through the material such as 3 of a hand bag, Wallet, sheet coverings, or like articles and to project from the interior surface thereof.

The securing member is in the form-of a ring or annulus 4, of part. circular trough section. This member substantially corresponds in size with the plate or disk 1 so that when it is placed opposite to the projections 2 with its open side 5 towards them, the projections will pass into the interior of the trough. If now the two parts 1 and 4 are firmly pressed together, the ends of the tongues 2 will be bent orrolled up in the interior of the trough 4. These bent or rolled up tongues will then form enlarged heads in the interior of the trough and serve to secure the parts firmly together.

As will be seen clearly from Figures 2 and 3, in cross section the trough like ring 4 has its outer wall for the greater part straight, so that the points of the prongs 2 can pass well through the material 3 bep 'penetrate'and project through a part of an article, for attachment thereto,-and a ringshaped securing member of trough-shaped section having a vertical outer wall and a substantially semicircular inner wall form .ing a continuation of'the said outer wall and adapted to receive the projecting parts of said prongs and tobend the points thereof inwardly and into substantially semicircular form.

In witness whereof we affix our signatures- WILLIAM EDWARD FINEGAN FITZGERALD.

THOMAS BOTTOM. 

